The Penn State WebAccess system is one of Penn State’s Single-Sign-On (SSO) solutions, providing an environment in which users can authenticate/log in one time with their respective Access Account to a central server in order to access multiple services protected with WebAccess without needing to re-authenticate.

Service Availability and Maintenance

Service is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

To keep systems running at peak performance and to ensure the best possible service, routine testing and maintenance is performed during the daily maintenance window from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. EST/EDT. During this time, systems and services may be affected. Unanticipated urgent service issues may require maintenance at other times.

Pricing

There is no charge to Penn State customers for this service.

Customers

Customers for this service are departments and designated affiliate departments within Penn State, as well as vendors who wish to implement CoSign instead of SAML (Shibboleth).